The Ex and Her Riches

Chapter 184

He had asked Swain to hurry back to the training facility and find Yohannes, but Swain had yet to return.

Maverick knew his own body, and he probably wouldn’t be able to hold on until Gwendolyn came home from dinner.

Is this really how I’m going to die?

He was unwilling to accept it, yet he was powerless to change it.

As of now, he did not even have the strength to write a farewell letter.

Earlier, that had been the first time Gwendolyn had hugged him since the divorce.

No, she wasn’t hugging me. She was only patting my head.

Charles was right. In the end, Gwendolyn saw Maverick as nothing more than a pet.

She no longer loved him.

As Maverick pondered on this, his consciousness gradually grew hazy, and there were black spots in his vision.

“Gwendolyn…”

I’ll give you my life, Gwendolyn, but can you give me your love in return?

Resigned to his fate, he closed his eyes and let his arms hang limply at his sides. He looked serene.

All was tranquil around him.

Apart from the curtains rustling in the breeze, the only other noise in the room was the sound of blood dripping from his fingertips onto the floor, one drop at a time.

In the car, Gwendolyn suddenly felt a sharp, intense pain in her heart.

She pressed a hand to her chest, her delicate face turning pale from the pain.

Charles noticed that something was off with her and quickly asked, “Gwen, what’s wrong? Are you unwell?”

He leaned forward, wanting to help her.

out to stop him. After taking a few deep

feel pain in my chest

any heart-related illnesses, and

last couple of days. Anyway, it’ll all be over in a few

a faint, icy gleam

didn’t notice her darkened gaze and continued

was not listening

how pale and sickly Maverick had looked before she left the house

been acting strange

ask me all those odd questions, such as whether I’d remember

like a dying patient who could not

into her thoughts,

before she left the house earlier and the warning he

said, “Charles is not a simple man. There may be secrets behind him that could be extremely detrimental to you. You

of

almost as if he had used the words “in the future”

thought about his trembling hands, his furrowed brows, the overwhelming sense of weakness that he couldn’t

and she shouted at

wrong, Gwen?” Charles

her seatbelt and opened the car door. “Something urgent came up. I’m afraid I won’t be able to make it to

“Gwen—”

when Gwendolyn slammed the

villa area, there were no taxis waiting by the roadside. After getting out of Charles’ car, she had no choice but to

and Justin caught up to

move even after Gwendolyn left; it simply stayed in

frantically ran

only just left Bay Villa when Nico once again confidently entered through the

emerged from the shadows when

salary from me the last time. Today, I’m going to win it all

expression cold and serious. “I’m not here to play

two exchanged

immediately felt a sharp pain in the back of their necks.

the three motionless figures on the ground impassively. As it turned out, tranquilizing them

the shadows. “Nico, we can’t just leave

unconscious men on the ground, cupped his hands around his lips,

a minute, but there was still no sound or movement within the villa, nor was there

sensed that something was off. “Never mind. Let’s go and check on

he was worried he would not be able to explain himself to Gwendolyn after this. In the end, he and Swain climbed the pipes behind the villa

only to find Maverick lying on the chaise

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